Commune, The (2nd Screening)

Danish master Thomas Vinterberg (Festen) reunites with screenwriter Tobias Lindholm (The Hunt, A Hijacking) in The Commune, a ‘70s set melodrama about the travails of communal living. Erik and Anna believe that they’re staving off middle class ennui when they establish an experiment of shared, democratic living in the middle of Copenhagen. But can such an environment ever be truly equal? And what problems of their own are they running away from? A perfectly composed take on the eternal conflict at the heart of the hippy dream.